Word: petrouchka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia when he wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter. Diaghilev commissioned him in 1910 to compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed...
...Rimsky's daughter's wedding Stravinsky wrote Fen d' Artifice, a fantasy so colorful that Sergei Diaghilev promptly commissioned him to write for the Russian Ballet. Fame came quickly with The Firebird (1910), Petrouchka (1911) and Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) which caused such a furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes...
...ballets which proved most popular on the road were Les Sylphides, Prince Igor and Petrouchka, all inherited from the old Diaghilev company. Most popular male dancers were handsome young David Lichine and the master Massine, who, at 38, is old to be dancing so fleetly. Most popular ballerinas were dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, who owns the marmoset, and Irina Baronova who can act as well as spin. Both...
...programme is as follows: Stravinsky "Fireworks," Op. 4 Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Stravinsky Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee" Intermission Stravinsky Suite from the Ballet, "Petrouchka...
Russian Dance -- Petrouchka--Grand Carnival--Nurses' Dance--The Bear and the Peasant Playing a Hand Organ--The Merchant and the Gypsies -- The Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms--The Masqueraders. Stravinsky Suite from "L'Oiseau de Feu", a Danced Legend